Hey loganom. I had started some work on this earlier but I couldn't continue because of other obligations. I came back to this today (coincidentally) and wrote some code for scraping data from wikipedia. My piece of code is at https://gist.github.com/chaitanyanettem/...

Currently my code access all 366 days of the year and writes the events, births and deaths to files (1 for each day). There are a few bugs that I am trying to iron out.